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Show ii:?. UNIVERSAL . 4 I C o li P . 147 BOX 227 SALT VOLUME IL 6TH AVEN'JS LAKE CITY, UTA:i r? NUMBER 22 M DUCHESNE. DUCHESNE COUNTY. UTAH. THURSDAY. 6 m ygdTORAt, EWPOINT VI - S CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor ANOTHER UBIC HAS MADE THAT WILL LINGER LONG HISTORY-HISTO- RY .... Uintah Basin There are so many things about the Industrial Convention that deserve editorial comment, I find myself at a loss as to where I should start, and how to end my column without missing an important part. I think Ill start by saying that over the years I have been actively identified with many community-sponsorecelebrations, along with conferences and conventions. Some were outstanding affairs, and some just average. However, never in my experience have I witnessed and participated in a program that compared with the 1952 UBIC. Stop with me for a second and analyze the UBIC Think, if you will, of the outstanding speaking talent that orated from the rostrum the specialized men and women who instructed various departmental sections the outstanding talent heard on each program along with the talent contest the competitive athletic contests the exhibitions of art, flowers, fashions, etc. that demonstrated skills and achievement. Now compare all that was heard and seen during the UBIC with other celebrations you know about. Did you ever participate in a belter balanced program of Education Culture Entertainment Sports than that which was offered to the people of the Uintah Basin? During the three days and nights of the UBIC I talked with many visitors and each was highly compliprogram. . . . Bementary of every phase of the three-daginning with the parade Wednesday morning and continuing through the Friday night dance, visitors were of the opinion that it was outstanding. . . . There was only one discordant note in the affair the daily newspaper accounts of the speakers. Several of the speakers were accused of talking politics and to my knowledge only one speaker made his address completely political, and I heard all except three, two of them being the first day. Its true national and international problems were mentioned by every speaker, but you get it in church, in service club meetings, and every place one goes where speeches are made. The committee, which was headed by Elmer Yergensen and Mrs. Elmer as chairman, Tal Wardle, along with every other memYergensen, secretary-treasureber, must be complimented for the fine leadership that went into the 1952 They brought to the convention an outstanding array of speakers, who rank high It was most unfortunate this is a ponationally litical year, and some, perhaps, might have construed the fact that one party or the other had more representation. Im sure that anyone who might have cast a word of criticism toward the committee in this light will have stopped and thought it through to the extent that it was just a coincidence that more members of one party had a Most certainly the committee was infront billing nocent of any such thoughts and ideas. - Now comes the issue Does the Uintah Basin want the UBIC continued in 1953? The Young Farmers of Roosevelt Chapter have voted not to sponsor the affair next year. This leaves the U B I C at the moment without a definite mothering organization. Saturday night at the UBIC arena a special meeting is being called, under the direction of Mayor J. V. MeLea of Roosevelt, to find out if the Basin wants the UBIC to live or die. Every community should have its annual celebration Salt Vernal has its Annual Rodeo and Homecoming Lake has its Days of 47 Ogden its Pioneer Days Payson its Onion Days Brigham City its Peach Days Pleasant So Roosevelt needs the Grove its Strawberry Days. UBIC Days and Duchesne should have its County Fair The annual Duchesne County Encampment is scheduled to be held at the Wolf Creek Forest Camp again this year, states Louis A. Jensen, agricultural agent, who is supervising- - the d .... y r, UBIC,... .... .... .... ... Days. The UBIC can only continue as a reality if the people of the Roosevelt area want it, and will sacrifice to make it a bigger and better convention than it was this year. Fridays meeting will answer the question, Come Out and Assert Yourself! Again will you join with me in commending those who made the 1952 UBIC the unusually outstanding success it was. . . . The entire committee the American Legion for the parade Chamber of Commerce for handling the finance Kiwanis for the advertising and publicity Roosevelt City for the Homecoming Lions for the bands and every other group which had any part to play in its success. . . . All were magnificent in the way support was The entire Basin is much better for having extended had the 1952 Uintah Basin Industrial Convention. .... three-da- y outing. Aug. dates set for the encamp- are the ment. boys Approximately and girls from the thirty clubs in the county are expected to attend. Any club member enrolled in a club who has the assigned work completed to date is eligible to attend the outing Leaders or an adult chaperone each club must accompany group. Each group is to furnish its own transportation to the forest camp ground. Outline for the encampment lists the opening at noon on Aug. 14, and close at noon on August 16. Chief activities for Thursday afternoon will be pitching camps and electing camp officers and committee heads. The selecting council will be representatives from each club. Officers to be elected are a mayor, assistant mayor, chief of police, camp fire supervisor, recreation supervisor, handicraft chairman, and sports supervisor. Visiting specialists at the encampment will be Grant Harris, extension forester from the Utah State Agricultural College, and Ranger Andrew R. from the Uinta National Forest district office at Heber City. Camp fire programs will be arranged for both Thursday and Friday nights. On Friday night will be held an Open House for all parents, relatives and friends of the campers. Visitors are invited to come at noon Friday and remain until after the campfire program. Activities of the encampmen; include handicraft exhibitions and contests, and nature studies, as well as sports. Two or three periods in camp will be organized for group activity. An awards program will be held Saturday morning. These awards will be given for the best sports, cleanest camp, greatest participation, and other qualifications. In July, Mr, Jensen took five camp representatives'! to a at Logan for special training. They will assist with the encampment. They are: Pleaay Lewis, Tabiona; Etholene Burton, Talmage; Clive Campbell, Ioka; Renee Eldredge, Roosevelt: and Joan Goodrich, Bluebell. 150-20- 0 4-- 4-- secretary-t- reasurer, Lc-ga- 4-- George Staples Visits People In Duchesne City A former coach at Duchesne High School, George Staples, of Richfield, was a caller in Duchesne last weekend. He recent ly returned from a tour of Europe and England, having arrived back in the United States July 1. He made the trip from England on the luxurious Queen Elizabeth. He was elected president jti the Rotary Club which was organized on the ship, and made tape recordings of the voices of Rotarians present sending greetings to Rotarians of Utah. v E v Mr. Staples said he travelled over 6,000 miles by auto througn TIME TO MAKE PLANS ABOUT France, Italy, Austria, Germany, ATTENDING COUNTY FAIR Holland, Belgium and England On this tour I talked with In just three weeks Duchesne County will be ready with hundreds of people from all its annual County Fair, which is set for Sept. 5 and 6 at walks of life in each country, Careful planning and a lot of work has Duchesne having United Press connections gone into the program that will be presented to those who which proved invaluable in getin 1952 Fair. the participate ting accurate pictures ot life in The Duchesne County Fair is for all the people in todays Europe, he said. the county and a broad invitation is extended the entire Mr. Staples, who has been Uintah Basin to join in the various activities designed to doing economic research in these make this years program tops among all others. countries commented on present conditions, stating that recovMay I encourage farmers, livestock raisers, dairymen, ery generally has been good, Club members, Future Farmers and all housewives, and the crops there, he said, are others who have products that can be displayed to plan excellent. The majority of the now to enter a display in the Duchesne County Fair people are well fed and well Sept. 5 and 6 at Duchesne, and to plan to attend both clothed. big days. However, there have been v E v many underlying political and economic factors working Today only 1.7 per cent of our national income is spent of the against on education, compared with 2.5 per cent in 1940, once strength and power that was theirs, he further commented. These underlying1 factors, acThere is not much collective security in a flock of cording to his views could well sheep on the way to the butcher. Winston Churchill. serve as a warning to Ameri30 cans. We are now follcnving some of the paths that led to European decline, he said. Mr. Staples has lost no time in entering the political field since his return. He has become a Republican candidate to repRisking a possible ambush, a from Company C who quickly resent Utahs first district in aneta, Utah, soldier recently volunteered to go after him, de- Congress. in the spite the danger of an enemy ;t his life and won NEW CLERK NAMED 'amatic rescue of a wounded ambush. The rescuers slipped by the Don Mayhcw has been emrpublic of Korea soldier. The Korean soldier was main line of resistance, covered ployed as postal clerk at the ounded when his patrol skirni-he- the 500 yards to the wounded Duchesne Post Office, reports with the enemy the nigt t soldier and brought him back, Wm. H. Case, postmaster. He ?fore. In the confusion, he wns all without incident. replaces Weston Dcspain. who ft behind when the pa'rol Private First Class Pearson, recently resigned as postal clerk. ithdrew. He was spotted the a machine gunner, is a 1947 ;xt morning, still in front of graduate of Altamont High ! ie friendly lines, by men of School, Mt. Emmons. He was employed DATE by the NEXT REGISTRATION ompany C of the 25th Infan-Utah Sand and Gravel Co. of Divisions 35th Regiment. ' 16 Pfc. William C. Pearson, of Salt Lake City before entering THATS NEXT TUESDAY oneta, wa one of seven men the Army in August 1951, .... .... .... 4-- Risks Life To Save Soldier d y Get Registered Is August 1952 14, $3.00 PER YEAR Two Stakes Set Conference 1 4-- 1952 .... Encampment Starts Today At IVolf Greek Camp 4-1- AUGUST Dates' For August To Preside Duchesne Stake Quarterly conference sessions will be held at Duchesne Saturday and Sunday under the direction of the Duchesne Slake Presidency, reports A. Hale stake president. Conference visitors will be Delbert L. Stapley, member of the Council of the Twelve, and Mark B. Garff, church welfare. First meeting of the conference will be held at 7 p. m. Saturday for the stake presidency and high council members. Leadership meeting wil begin at 8 p. m., and the ward and stake welfare meeting js set for 9 p. m. Sunday sessions open at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. President Holgate said those who are expected to attend the leadership meeting include the stake presidency, stake high council, patriarchs, stake clerk and assistant clerks, stake Priesthood committee, all presidencies, secretaries and group leaders of the Melchize-dePriesthood quorum, stake mission presidency, stake Aaron-i- c Priesthood, bishops, bishops counselors, ward clerks and assistant clerks . stake and ward Hol-gat- Moon Lake Stake Spencer W. Kimball, member Council of Church of Jesus ChristTwelve, of Latter Day Saints, will preside over and address the quarterly stake conference of the Moon Lake Stake Saturday evening and Sunday, is an announcement made by William Brotherson, stake president. According to Pres. Brother-son- , Lorenzo H. Hatch, member of the church welfare committee. will accompany Elder Kimball and will conduct the welfare session Saturday evening. A stake priesthood leadership meeting will also be held Saturday night. Time of the meetings was not announced for Saturday evening, but the Sunday sessions are at 10 a. m. and 2 of the e, .v. T ' , .. v. .7:: ' v.J Lj p. m. Mel-chized- Ward-teachin- DELBERT L. STAPLEY. who will represent the gen- eral authorities of the church at the Duchesne Stake conference Aug. 16 and 17. He is a member of the Council of Twelve, and one of the newer apostles of the L D S Church. committees, g Aaronic Priesthood and quorum advisers, stake superintendency of Sunday School and Young Mens M I A, president of the high priest quorum, as well as all stake and ward welfare workers. A noon luncheon will be served by1 the Duchesne Ward Relief Society. Ushering will be under the direction of the seventies quorum. Is Visitor Teen-Ag- e To Contest In Coming Elections Four Republican nominees were certified by party delegates at the nominating convention of the Duchesne County Republican Party held at Duchesne last Saturday. Candidates whose names were certified by the party to appear on the primary election ballet were Floyd E. Lamb. Myton rancher, and Elwood B. Carter, Tabiona rancher, for' county commissioner; Clinton J. Duchesne business Mickelson, man and member of the Duchesne City Council, r county commissioner; and incumbent Wm. N. Brotherson. Boneta rancher and president of the Moon Lake Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, state representative. These were the only men who filed declarations of candidacy for the posts to be filled in the county in the general election. It was not necessary to eliminate any candidates at the Republican Nominating Convention for Duchesne County. y Three sisters from Duchesne won the grand prize in the teenage talent show sponsored by the UBIC at Roosevelt last week. Winners of this coveted place were Donna, Darlene and Joyce Lundgren, who recently came to Kenniwick, Duchesne tofrom assist in the opWashington, eration of the Blue Haven Tourist Court which their father, E. B. Lundgren, operates. SPENCER W. KIMBALL, member of the Quorum of Twelve, who will preside over the Moon Lake Conference He Saturday and Sunday will also visit Roosevelt Stake the following week. .... Youth Gets Jail Term For Armed Robbery Winslow Brothers Have Birthday William Kenneth Russell, 18, Okla., is now serving an undetermined sentence in the Utah State Penitentiary. He was sentenced in the Fourth Judicial District Court at Duchesne last week after pleading guilty to a charge of armed robbery. The sentence, pronounced by District Judge Wm. Stanley Dunford of Provo, was from 5 years to life imprisonment. On July 31. near Duchesne, Russell, a hitchhiker, held up Arnold Schulthess. of Vernal, with whom he had secured a ride from near Salt Lake City. He was apprehended later that same night as he entered his room in the Duchesne Hotel. of Ponca City, On August 11th August 11 marked an important anniversary for L. C Winslow. On this date 47 years ago, the Winslow brothers, Earl S. and L. Clair, arrived from Denver, Colorado, by Prairie Schooner, at what is now Duchesne Townsite. This has been the Winslow home sine that time. The Uintah Reservation was officially opened to the white man for settlement on August 27 of the same year. The Winslow homestead adjoins Duchesne City, where Mr. and Mrs. L. Clair Winslow are now living a retired life in a lovely modern home amid very surroundings. They pleasant have contributed much of their time and talents to the proL. gress of the community in a R. M. Jensen, Salt Lake City. civic and educational way. It is see many more Tuesday submitted a low bid hoped that they of $199,969.70 for construction anniversaries of their arrival in Duchesne. of 7.8 miles on State Road (2) from Upalco to U, S. 40 in Duchesne County. In other bidding, conducted at the State Capitol, L. A. Young Construction Company, Richfield, was low of five bidders with $38,159.40 for construction of 6.2 miles of State Road from Kanab to Johnson. State Road Commission engineers estimate on the first Duchesne County is to become project was $91,854.70; on the a participant in, the Social Sesecond project $34,340.20. curity System. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the August meeting of the Duchesne County Commissioners. Participation in the Social Security by the county means Ten men from Arcadia eave a System the benefits of old age and that to Duchesne the boost County survivor insurance will be exFair preparations Tuesday bv tended to its employees and of- volunteering labor for improvement of the fair grounds at the This plan and agreement will Duchesne City Park of January 1, Those assisting with pouring 'be effective as 1951, officially adopted although of the floor cement the for the new exhibit building and other this week by the Duchesne Commissioners, inaslobs at the fair grounds that County much as the Social Security Act day from the Arcadia area were. has been so amended by the A. Hale Holeate, Clarence Chad Evans, Hyrum Can-so- Congress of the United States as permit political subdivisions Howard Gilbert. Garn Gil- to of several states to extend to the M. bert. Larry Gilbert. Thomas employees and officers the Gilbert. Jack Gilbert, and Rulon their benefits of old age and survivGilbert. Allen Bond, suncrvlsor of the ors insurance. The legislature of the State ot grounds for the Duchesne County Fair Committee, was in Utah enacted Senate Bill No. 1, 29th Legislature, 1951, which charge of labor operations. Ioka Lane Road Bid Goes To Contractor S-1- Walter K. Granger To Address Demo Convention Congressman Walter K. Granger, candidate for U. S. Senator from Utah, will keynote the Duchosne County Democratic convention to be held in the courthouse at 2 p. m. on Friday, is an announcement made today by Bennie Schmiett, chairman. Inasmuch as Marvin Michie, incumbent county commissioner from Tabiona, has e withdrawn from the race for the past, there has been eliminated the need of a county contest. The time Friday, therefore, will bi and spent in planning the forthcoming campaign. AH duly elected delegates are expected to be present. ar I ficc-rs- . i Hor-rock?- Response from girls in Duchesne County to enter the Miss Duchesne County contest this year is very good, announces Mrs. J. V. McLea, chairman of the event, which will take place during the County Fair. Entries may still be made, and the chairman urges every eligible girl to take advantage of this opportunity, with a search for entries being conducted in every community in the county. Contestants must be single and never have been married, divorced or had a marriage annulled, and must be 18 years of age by Sept. 1, but not older than 28. Girls entering the contest must be in good health and may be either amateur or professional to participate in the e talent routine which is a highlight of the contest to be held in Duchesne at the County Fair on Sept. 5. The talent may be singing, dancing, playing a musical instrument, a dramatic reading, or she may e give a talk on the career she wishes to pursue. Esther Wogec of Roosevelt, Miss Duchesne County" for 1951, was a runner-u- p in the Miss Utah contest competition held at the State Fair. A special fund has been set up by the Duchesne County Fair Board for use in paying expenses of the winning contestant in participating in the state fair and for purchasing a gift of appreciation for each of the county contestants. Miss Duchesne County" will lead the parade Saturday morning following the Friday night contest, and will receive as the first price the chance to compete at the State Fair for the Miss Utah title. three-minut- was-to-b- GOP Clubs Pow-Wo- w On Plan I loro August 23rd The Associated Republican Clubs of the Uintah Basin will hold the first in a series of free entertainment at the Roosevelt City Park, August 23, is an announcement made this week by J. V. McLea, Duchesne County chairman. . The entertainment will begin at 6:30 with each person bringing a box lunch. There will be a program from 7:15 to 9 o'clock which wUl consist of featured speakers and musical numbers. Following the program, a dance will be held on the tennis court. A special feature of the dance will be a floor show with square dancing clubs of the Basin participating. This wUl be most entertaining and interesting, Mr. McLea promises, and an invitation is extended the public to attend. A complete program will be published in next weeks paper. er ar speech-makin- g County Officials Join Blue-Cro- ss Duchesne County officials, deputies, and the road supervisor have joined the Blue Cross-BluShield group insurance plan. This insurance coverage became effective July 16. The county pays the fee for all the officials, deputies, and for the road supervisor. Additional premiums for dependants of these officials and employees are paid by the insured. e Duchesne County To Function In Social Security System; Plan Retroactive To January 1951 Arcadia Men Aid In Fair Project Girls Urged To Enter Miss Duchesne Contest three-minut- two-yea- Talent Award S. Four Republicans ar Sister Trio Wins UBIC 17 and ft 7c PER COPT enables the political subdivi sions of the State of Utah to take all action necessary to effectuate the coverage of their employees and officers under said old age and survivors insurance system. It is the opinion of the county commissioners that the extension of this Social Security System will be of great benefit not only to the employees of the county but to the county by attracting to it and enabling it to retain the best of personnel and thus increase the efficiency of its government; and it Is deemed that the payment by the county of its portion of the cost of said system is a payment !for county purpose. Social Security payments will be retroactive to January 1. 1951, also, with the county and the employee sharing the Cost of participation in the social program, states M. R. Michic, chairman of the Duchesne County Commissioners. Slate Luncheon At Altonah Aug. 30 GOP Women According to Mrs. Manila Madsen, of Duchesne, county vice chairwoman of the Republican Party, and Mrs. Pearl committee-woman- . Roosevelt, a luncheon will be held at the American Legion Hall in Altonah on Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 1 p. m. A very special program is being prepared. Mrs. Joseph L. Worthlin, president of the Utah Federated Womens Republican Clubs, Mrs. Lloyd V. Pyne state vice chairwoman, and Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, state committee-womawill be guest speakers. A cordial invitation is extended to everyone to attend. Contact your local vice chairman for tickets. n, UBIC Status To Bo Viewed On August 16th Does the City of Roosevelt Want The U B I C Continued? That ultra special, very important question, will be answered Saturday night at the City Park when representatives of service clubs, churches, city officials and any and all other people of the Basin who want to see the important UBIC remain a growing institution. For three years the Young Farmers, Roosevelt Chapter has been the sponIt soring organization was they who brought it back from the grave in 1949, revived and presented it to the community of Roosevelt as a strong and vigorous project, worthy to grow and develop. Be at the City Park Saturday, Aug. 16 at 7:30 and voice your sentiments about the UBIC. .... |